Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Happiness and hatred walk side by side on South Africa's road to democracy. Nelson Mandela wants to focus attention on the better life to come, "the historic moment when all South Africans, blacks and whites, will work together to build a new country." But while joyous crowds of African...
We do not want a preservation of the sham of a nonexistent "Radcliffe College," which offers no concentrations and has no faculty body. But the name should be preserved, on the diplomas of all College men and women, for symbolic and historic reasons.
John Wayne Bobbitt, Michael Jackson, Tonya Harding, Lorena Bobbitt, Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez, who, by some inexplicable synchronism, have created a historic profusion of simultaneous tawdriness
Indeed, historic injustices suffered by the Palestinians have only occurred because of the threat to Israeli security. Israel never intended to hold the territories of Gaza and the West Bank under military occupation, but was compelled to do so as a security measure, in the face of steadfast aggression by...
Increasingly, however, it is becoming clear that the September signing of the Declaration of Principles between Israel and the PLO was, in effect, little more than a handshake, and that my mother's concerns over disappointment may have been quite valid. Exaggerated by the media as a historic breakthrough between...